FORAGING DISTANCES AND HOME RANGE OF PREGNANT AND LACTATING LITTLE BROWN BATS (MYOTIS LUCIFUGUS)
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- 1 August 2002
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Journal of Mammalogy
- Vol. 83 (3) , 767-774
- https://doi.org/10.1644/1545-1542(2002)083<0767:fdahro>2.0.co;2
Abstract
As income breeders, lactating female bats rely on current resource intake to support costs of reproduction and so must reconcile the conflicting demaKeywords
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